2014 schedule

 

13:00-17:00
Introduction to Spectroscopy Workshop
Ken Harrison
Workshop
13:00-17:00
Workshop on Occultation Timing
TTSO8
Workshop
15:00-15:30
Afternoon Tea
Break
18:30-21:30
Welcome Function
Ken Le Marquand
Social
09:00-09:15
NACAA XXVI Welcome Address
Ken Le Marquand
Talk
09:15-10:30
Keynote: Mirroring Melbourne - Reflections on the Great Melbourne Telescope & Melbourne Observatory
Richard Gillespie
Keynote
10:30-11:00
Morning Tea
Break
11:00-11:30
It takes Two to Tango: the Intertwined Lives of Close Binary Stars
Tom Richards
Talk
11:00-11:30
Telescopes in Schools
Jacinta den Besten
Talk
11:30-12:00
Spotty Stars
Donna Burton
Talk
11:30-12:00
Project Exo Planet
Chris Rudge, Mike Thompson, Junior Section of the ASV
Talk
12:00-12:30
Pitfalls for Unwary Photometrists of the Understudied Southern Eclipsing Binaries
David J. W. Moriarty
Talk
12:00-12:30
Astronomy Outreach Program in the Central Region of Nepal
Ramchandra Gautam
Talk
12:00-12:30
What image intensifiers can and can't do
Barry Clark
Talk
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
13:30-14:30
Pro-Am Collaborative Astronomy (PACA): The New Paradigm for Scientific Research
Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher
Talk
14:30-15:00
The Fossil of Saturn's Great Storm of 2010/2011
Trevor Barry
Talk
14:30-15:00
"Wow" Images of the Solar System
Dr John Wilkinson
Talk
15:00-15:30
Afternoon Tea
Break
15:30-16:00
Visual Comet Observing
Chris Wyatt
Talk
15:30-16:00
Captain Henry Evans Baker: A Star, Nerd or Futurist?
Saeed Salimpour and Judith Bailey
Talk
16:00-16:30
Infrared Photography of the Solar System
Barry Adcock
Talk
16:00-16:30
Tycho and Kepler in Prague
Ian A B Sullivan
Talk
16:30-17:00
Astrophotography of the Sun
Dr John Wilkinson
Talk
16:30-17:00
How to Give Great Powerpoint Presentations
Lesa Moore
Talk
18:30-23:00
Convention dinner
Social
20:00-20:45
After Dinner Speaker: New insights into how the solar system was formed, based on the wealth of new spacecraft data and a novel mathematical theory
Andrew Prentice
Invited
09:00-09:30
BSM South
Peter Nelson
Talk
09:00-09:30
Clarke's Third Law, and the NACAA web site
Stephen Russell
Talk
09:30-10:00
Analysis of 22000 Crater Timing observations made over 170 years
Dave Herald & Roger Sinnott
Talk
09:30-10:00
Mount Burnett: An observatory for all the community
James Murray
Talk
10:00-10:30
Auxiliary Southern Double Star Catalogues
Andrew James
Talk
10:00-10:30
Establishing an observatory at a dark sky site (with Boss the Builder)
David J. W. Moriarty
Talk
10:30-11:00
Morning Tea
Break
11:00-12:00
Perdrix Address: The Great Melbourne Telescope: Why Did They Do That?
Barry Adcock
Keynote
12:00-12:30
NACAA AGM
NACAA INC
Meeting
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
13:30-14:00
Delta Scuti–type pulsating stars in eclipsing binary systems
Margaret Streamer
Talk
13:30-14:00
Lunar Occultations of Close Double Stars
Brian Loader
Talk
14:00-14:30
From light curves to light elements: New ephemerides for the Delta Scuti stars RS Gru and BS Aqr
Roy Axelsen
Talk
14:00-14:30
Observing Occultations Using Video: A Beginner’s Guide
Jacquie Milner
Talk
14:30-15:00
Variable Star Photometry with a DSLR Camera
Mark Blackford
Talk
14:30-15:00
Measuring Trans-Neptunian Objects with Backyard Telescopes
Stephen Kerr, with Dave Herald, Dave Gault, Hristo Pavlov, Felipe Braga Ribas, Bruno Sicardy, Julio Camargo, Roberto Vieira-Martins
Talk
15:00-15:30
Afternoon Tea
Break
15:30-17:00
GMT Workshop Excursion
Other
15:30-16:00
The Nucleosynthesis of all Elements by a Supernova
Dr. Peter Norman
Talk
15:30-16:00
Asteroidal Occultations: Profiles, 3D-Models, discoveries, and data archiving
Dave Herald
Talk
16:00-16:30
The Life and Death of Stars - Part 2: Neutron Stars
Wayne Roberts
Talk
16:00-16:30
Grazing with Team Occultation 2012-2014
Dave Gault
Talk
16:30-17:15
Leon Mow Radio Observatory
Clint Jeffrey
Talk
18:30-21:30
Farewell Function
Social
09:00-12:00
Astronomy 3.0
Peter Lake
Workshop
09:00-17:00
Eighth Trans-Tasman Symposium on Occultations
Dave Gault, Convenor
Symposium
10:30-11:00
Morning Tea
Break
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Break
15:00-15:30
Afternoon Tea
Break
09:00-09:15
Welcome
Donna Burton, General Secretary, NACAA
Other